APPLE TART

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Time
Cook: 15 min Total: 15 min
Status
success · extracted 11 days ago
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Ingredients (8)
Instructions (12)
  1. Scald eight or ten large codlins.
  2. When cold, skin them.
  3. Take the pulp and beat it as fine as you can with a silver spoon.
  4. Mix in the yolks of six eggs and the whites of four.
  5. Beat all together as fine as possible.
  6. Add grated nutmeg and sugar to your taste.
  7. Melt some fine fresh butter and beat it until it is like a fine thick cream.
  8. Make a fine puff paste and cover a tin petty-pan with it.
  9. Pour in the ingredients, but do not cover it with the paste.
  10. Bake it for a quarter of an hour.
  11. Flip it out of the petty-pan on a dish.
  12. Strew fine sugar, finely beat and sifted, all over it.
Original Text
To make an APPLE TART. SCALD eight or ten large codlins, when cold skin them, take the pulp, and beat it as fine as you can with a silver spoon, then mix the yolks of six eggs and the whites of four, beat all together as fine as possible, put in grated nut- meg and sugar to your taste, melt some fine fresh butter, and beat it till it is like a fine thick cream, then make a fine puff paste, and cover a tin petty-pan with it, and pour in the ingre- dients, but do not cover it with the paste; bake it a quarter of an hour, then flip it out of the petty-pan on a dish, and strew fine sugar, finely beat and sifted, all over it.
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